Articles by Reuters
Canada captures men’s hockey gold; Sweden’s Backstrom fails dope test
By Steve Keating, Reuters on Feb. 23, 2014, at 9:48 a.m.
SOCHI, Russia — Canada swept past Sweden 3-0 on Sunday in the Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey final, a game Swedish forward Nicklas Backstrom missed due to a failed a dope test. News of Backstrom’s failed test broke as Canada and Sweden were accepting their medals to wild cheers at …
One dead, 27 made ill by carbon monoxide at New York mall
NEW YORK — One man died and dozens more were treated in hospitals or at the scene after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning at a mall restaurant on New York’s Long Island on Saturday evening, police said. Police responding to a call about an injured woman at the Legal Sea Foods …
Maria von Trapp of ‘Sound of Music’ fame dead at 99
Maria von Trapp, a member of the Austrian family whose escape from Nazi Germany and subsequent musical career inspired the famed musical “The Sound of Music,” has died at the age of 99, according to newspapers quoting her brother. Von Trapp died Tuesday, but the news was confirmed Saturday by …
OLYMPICS
Finland men’s hockey team shuts out US to capture bronze in Sochi
SOCHI, Russia — Finland hammered the United States 5-0 at the Sochi Games on Saturday to win their second consecutive Olympic men’s ice hockey bronze medal. The Finns made a quick start to the second period, getting goals 11 seconds apart from Teemu Selanne and Jussi Jokinen in the first …
US soldier killed, 7 injured during training exercise at Fort Bragg
A U.S. Army soldier was killed and seven were injured during a training exercise involving a large gun at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Friday, officials at the base said. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers were participating in an early morning live-fire training exercise with a M777 light, towed …
Canada shuts out US, earns gold-medal men’s hockey final against Sweden
By Steve Keating, Reuters on Feb. 21, 2014, at 2:16 p.m.
SOCHI, Russia — Canada squeezed past archrivals the United States 1-0 on Friday to reach the final of the Sochi Winter Games men’s ice hockey competition as it bids to successfully defend its 2010 Olympic crown. Sweden, 2-1 winners over Finland in the other semifinal, will face off against Canada …
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Russian Sotnikova wins skating gold; judging under scrutiny
SOCHI, Russia — Adelina Sotnikova smashed her career best to become the first Russian to win the Olympic women’s figure skating title on Thursday, leaving defending champion Kim Yuna sobbing with silver and some neutrals questioning the scoring. South Korea’s Kim had been favorite to join Norway’s Sonja Henie and …
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US skier Maddie Bowman wins first women’s freestyle halfpipe gold
By Philip O'Connor, Reuters on Feb. 20, 2014, at 2:15 p.m.
ROSA KHUTOR, Russia — Maddie Bowman called on a lifetime of experience on skis to quell her jitters and dominate the inaugural women’s freestyle halfpipe event at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park on Thursday. The American, who first strapped on a pair of skis at the age of two, continued …
Obama, Harper bet cases of beer on US-Canada Olympic hockey games
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have put both national pride and cases of beer on the line in a friendly wager on the Canada-U.S. Olympic hockey matches. In what has become an Olympic tradition between the leaders, Obama and Harper announced on Twitter that …
Former US congressman faces pornography charge in Zimbabwe
HARARE — Former congressman Mel Reynolds was due to appear in a Zimbabwe court on Wednesday on charges of possessing pornographic images and of staying in the country without a valid visa, according to legal papers seen by Reuters. Reynolds, 62, a convicted sex offender in the United States, was …
US soldier convicted of Iraq rape, murders found hanged in prison
A former U.S. Army soldier sentenced to life in prison for the 2006 rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing of her parents and sister, was found hanged in his cell, The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday, citing prison officials. The death on Saturday of Steven …
Number of test-tube babies born in US hits record percentage
NEW YORK — More test-tube babies were born in the United States in 2012 than ever before, and they constituted a higher percentage of total births than at any time since the technology was introduced in the 1980s, according to a report released on Monday. The annual report was from …
Church of England rules out blessings for gay marriages
LONDON — Church of England priests will not be allowed to bless gay and lesbian weddings, or marry someone of the same sex themselves, according to new guidelines issued by the church, which is struggling to heal divides over homosexuality. Same-sex marriage becomes legal in England next month, posing a …
Olympic hockey: Kessel hat-trick powers US to win over Slovenia
By Frank Pingue, Reuters on Feb. 16, 2014, at 10:02 a.m.
SOCHI, Russia — Phil Kessel took a minute to open the scoring and went on to record a natural hat-trick as the United States beat Slovenia 5-1 on Sunday to secure a bye into the quarter-finals of the men’s ice hockey tournament at the Sochi Games. Kessel opened the scoring …
John Henson, son of Muppets’ Jim Henson, dies at 48
By David Colker, Los Angeles Times on Feb. 16, 2014, at 9:31 a.m.
John Henson, 48, who occasionally performed as a puppeteer in the famed Muppets troupe his father founded, died Friday of a heart attack at his home in Saugerties, N.Y. He did not have a history of heart trouble, his sister Cheryl said. His father, Jim Henson, died at age 53 …
Suspected hazing death of New York student ruled a homicide
The death of a New York college student from brain trauma in a suspected fraternity hazing incident in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania in December was a homicide, a county coroner said on Saturday. Chun “Michael” Deng, a freshman at Baruch College in Manhattan, died of injuries inflicted by one …
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter hacked, recommends users change passwords
Kickstarter, the fundraising platform used by millions of people to raise capital for creative projects and businesses, said on Saturday that hackers had gained access to some of its customers’ data earlier this week but that the breach had been repaired. “No credit card data of any kind was accessed …
Accused Craigslist killer admits crime, claims 22 murders
A woman charged with the murder of a man lured to a Pennsylvania rendezvous through the website Craigslist has admitted to the killing in an interview from jail, a local newspaper reported on Saturday. Miranda Barbour, 19, also said she had killed at least 22 people in different parts of …
Possible radiation leak at New Mexico military nuclear waste site
Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened in 1999. U.S. officials were testing for radiation in air samples at the site where radioactive …
Twenty-five years after Soviet exit, Taliban says US will meet same fate
KABUL — The Taliban called on Afghans to expel the United States from Afghanistan on Saturday just as they said Afghan mujahideen fighters had done to Soviet forces 25 years ago to the day. In a statement issued on the 25th anniversary of the final Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, a …
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